Webcam Simferopol. K. Marx street
The street starts from Kirov Avenue and up to Victory Square is a pedestrian street. The length of the pedestrian part of about 400 meters. The street ends with Karl Marx transition to Lenin Boulevard (near the railway station) and intersecting Pavlenko Street. It is crossed by Pushkin, Serov, Zhukovsky, Zhelyabov, Tolstoy streets and Galereiny lane. The intersection of Pushkin Street and Marx called by residents of Simferopol "cross".
At the time of the appearance of Simferopol street was the northern entrance to town and was called the "Road to Perekop. The outlines of the street were formed in accordance with the General Plan of the city in 1794, which implied the division of the city blocks a rectangular grid. Streets had to diverge from the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
The first recorded name of this street was Moskovskaya.
Over time various shopping buildings appeared in street, and it became the main shopping street of the city. In the first half of the nineteenth century on this street was built hospice Taranov-Beloziorov (№ 28/10), which became one of the first monumental buildings in Simferopol.
On the place of the present-day building of the Crimean parliament (No. 18) there was a police department and a prison. In this regard, the street was named "Police Street" in 1839. The two-story stone police house (No. 22) was built in 1810. From 1869 to 1909 the building was occupied by the District Court of Simferopol, and then the eighth grade school number 8.
In honor of the opening of the monument of Catherine II in Simferopol City Council on Sept. 27, 1890 renamed the street Police in Catherine Street.
Before 1904 the streets of Simferopol had no house numbering. Addresses were designated by the names of the owners and the number of the site. House Semerdzhiev, for example, had 141 plot number.
From 1914, streetcar traffic was running along the street. The streetcar line disappeared completely in 1957.
